After the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, lawmakers now have time to plan the next business tax reform. Such a reform should tax business income neutrally and eliminate the pass-through ...

The first Trump administration correctly identified the People’s Republic of China as the main trade problem. Not only has the second term been less focused, but China no longer seems to be a ...

If you’re wondering how powerful AI systems are becoming, consider what just happened. An AI agent escaped the isolated environment where it was being tested, found its way onto the open internet, ...

In a recent interview, former Freddie Mac CEO Donald Layton says Fannie and Freddie were "lazy competitors" before government seizure.

Once again, the United States confronts an unexpected threat in the Middle East—this time, from the Houthis of Yemen, who have chosen to take their war against the government of Yemen out into the Red ...

The China Global Investment Tracker is the most complete public record of the country’s investment and construction worldwide, with more than 4,300 transactions from 2005 through 2022.

AEI internships are available in the fall, spring, and summer to experienced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent graduates. A minimum 3.0 GPA is required; however, most successful ...

In "It’s Even Worse Than It Looks," congressional scholars Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution and Norman Ornstein of AEI identify two overriding problems that have led Congress — and the United ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

Who said this? “If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation.” The speaker went on, “Trump did a better job. I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do.

The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...

This report documents chronic absenteeism over the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the American Enterprise Institute’s Return to Learn Tracker Chronic Absenteeism Data Collection, the most comprehensive ...